UNITED STATES (TIP): An outbreak of fighting at a UN peacekeeping base sheltering civilians in South Sudan has killed at least seven people and injured 40, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday. The seven […]
Dear President Obama, The untimely demise of Mr. Justice Scalia is a grave loss to our Republic, as he, single-handedly, made us honor the Constitution as our collective Founding Fathers originally intended. J. Scalia, of Sicilian ancestry, was […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan hanged 324 people last year to rank third worldwide in terms of executions, but the vast majority of those put to death had no links to militant groups or attacks, rights groups said […]
MALE:A Maldives court has sentenced an Islamist opposition leader to 12 years in jail, convicting him on terrorism charges related to a speech that protested the imprisonment of the islands’ first democratically elected president, Mohamed […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil S Wickremesinghe on Feb 19 made it clear that his government was not averse to international participation in investigating the alleged war crimes in his country, but said […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Promising to end Nepal’s internal problems soon, Prime Minister KP Oli on Tuesday said the proposed political committee to address the demands of the Madhesis will be formed before his fence-mending India visit […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): At least nine tribal police personnel and seven terrorists were killed in three separate incidents at a tribal agency in Pakistan’s restive northwestern region bordering Afghanistan. The first incident occurred at Karpa Latri […]
What is the issue at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi? A radical left-wing student group as vocal and abusive as RSS/Parivar organized a function to discuss the ‘judicial murder of’ of Afzal Guru as […]
WASHINGTON(TIP): President Barack Obama will become the first sitting U.S. President to visit Cuba in 88 years, when he visits Havana, Cuba in March as part of a broader trip to Latin America. He will […]
Officials said mobile internet services have been blocked in Jhajjar and Rohtak in the Jat heartland which saw violence on Thursday when protesters clashed and pelted stones on police trying to evict them after imposition […]
WASHINGTON: Noting that the biggest banks continue to pose a significant risk to the US economy, Indian- American top federal bank official Neel Kashkari has called for breaking them into smaller ones. “I believe the […]
The ‘Make in India’ (MII) Week, touted as the largest business expo hosted by the country, was inaugurated in Mumbai by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, Feb 13, in the presence of heads of state, a […]
Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Venezuela are ready to freeze oil production at January’s level if other producers do the same. The agreement came after a meeting in Doha on Tuesday. Oil prices have dropped […]
UNITED NATTIONS (TIP): Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, on February 12, applauded the United Nations Secretary General’s report on Preventing Violent Extremism. Thanking the President of the UN Body […]
Amention of the most haunted places in Kolkata brings alive its fascinating past as well. A city that was much loved by the Mughals, French, British and Dutch, almost every lane has a tale to tell, […]
Vasant Panchami, also known as Shri Panchami, is a Hindu festival dedicated to goddess Saraswati. This popular festival is observed on the fifth day of the Hindu month of Magh. Being an important festival, all Hindus […]
TOKYO (TIP): High-schooler Nao Noguchi is a perfect illustration of why Japanese camera sales have plunged the past few years — she uses her smartphone for everything and cannot understand why anyone would bother with […]
LONDON (TIP): Mothers-to-be, beware. Your child is more likely to develop asthma if you use paracetamol — a common painkiller — during pregnancy, a new study has warned. Using data from the Norwegian Mother and […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): This could well be a breakthrough in detecting cancer at an early stage. Researchers from the National Institute of Health (NIH) in the US have concluded that a simple blood test may be […]
With different viruses devastating new territories every two years with imperialistic ease, the world has been forced to forge alliances with a fervour never seen before. Over the past 15 years, diseases that went viral within weeks […]
US researchers have found a new sunscreen that guarantees no loss of vitamin D, rather allows the body to produce the essential vitamin, a deficiency or insufficiency of which causes major health problems in both adults […]
Amid the growing craze for Valentine’s Day celebrations, men end up spending more to pamper their loved one than women, reveals a survey. Giftease.com, an Indian gifting portal conducted the online survey with 3000 respondents across […]
India has unquestionable credentials to seek a place on the global high table: Second largest population, third largest economy in PPP terms, leading IT power and largest troop contributor to UN Peace Keeping operations. Add to […]
FLORIDA (TIP): Florida fast food restaurant got a customer it wasn’t expecting when a live alligator was tossed through a drive-thru window by a patron. Joshua James, 23, of Jupiter, Florida, had wanted to play […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Obama administration says a North Korea sanctions bill that won Senate approval is consistent with US efforts to increase pressure on North Korea over its development of nuclear weapons. Deputy national security […]
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